American Express announced today that it has acquired Mezi, the AI-based virtual travel assistant, for an undisclosed amount. After the deal closes, Mezi will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Express. Its technology is already powering AskAmex, a personal concierge app for cardholders that launched its pilot program last year.

The worth of chatbot market, according to Marketsandmarkets, reached $703 million in 2016, and it’s estimated to grow with a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 35.2% over the period 2016 to 2022. Ubisend claims that 57 percent of the UK consumers are acquainted with the chatbot. Yes, gradually this genie is coming out of the bottle to serve its masters. Let’s see how you can make use of this technology to ace the marketplace competition.

AI robots not only diminish the human involvement with its voice-activated assistants but also smarten the way hotel guest service is delivered to customer’s satisfaction. From customer’s personal choices to their smallest of needs, AI-enabled hotel concierge bots can offer minute service and careful assistance.

By 2020, AI technologies will have created a $1.2 trillion insights-driven market and filtered into almost all new software product and services. For years, personal assistants from Siri to Alexa have deepened big tech’s reach into our lives. Now, young startups are finding funding success to bring a host of other AI innovations to market.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to deploy to Heroku a chatbot that uses Botfuel Webchat . If you’re not familiar with Heroku, it‘s a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that automates the configuration, deployment and ongoing management of applications in the cloud.